Zoom LiveTrak L6

Interesting! I just got a support reply from Zoom confirming my issue and saying that their engineering team is looking into it. I wonder if it somehow only shows up as an issue over USB-C? Seems like that’d be really strange.

Are you an older iOS version before iOS 18 by any chance?

That’s on powerful set up right there!

noooo very bad news… thanks a lot anyway

For those who have the unit. I’m curious if it is possible to make the aux outputs work as an alternative stereo bus output.

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Sure, 16.7.10…I’m on 5th gen, I’m up to date for my hardware it seems ! :slight_smile:

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Thanks! I suspect you being on an older iOS version is why this is working fine for you - as noted earlier in the thread, the compatibility list Zoom posted showed testing on iOS 16 and 17 but not 18, so might be there’s issues in the newest version.

It’s also possible that there’s some difference using it with the Lightning adapter, but I’d be a little surprised if that had anything to do with it.

That would surprising indeed !

Does it also work as a midi I/O interface?

And adding to that, how does the 4 outputs work in audio interface mode? Are the main outs and aux outs available as individual outputs from the computer? Or are they assigned to tracks 5&6?

If it’s the latter I’m worried you only get a stereo output (Master) and 1 Aux Mono out in actual practice.

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It’s two mono signals (aux 1 and aux 2). You can use both for an alt mix in stereo, but currently it seems like you need to set the levels of each aux individually, so an update with the possibility of locking one to the other would be nice.

I’m also unsure how the summing works to aux, if I send a stereo signal to both. I assume you would end up sending L/R to both auxes as a summed mono. In that case it would just be two summed stereo to mono auxes and not one left and one right. But haven’t really understood how it works, if you can send L/R separately to the aux or similar.

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Did you use it with an iPad or iPhone with USB-C? If iPhone it’s highly likely you need to use and USB-C to USB-A cable and an adapter like it was needed with the Tascam Portacapture X8. It really sucks that you still need apple adapters when moving over to usb-c. I don’t think this is the case with iPads though.

Did I understand correctly that, current firmware, there is no midi-clock synchronization in or out for the recording section? Only sync delay to Midi clock?

https://zoomcorp.com/en/us/news/midi-capabilities-of-the-livetrak-l6/

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I believe i have read online that there is no midi sync for recording which is weird. Hopefully they can update it.

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Yes, it has so much potential.

Even without a multitrack recording feature it is a great Volca mixer and multi i/o interface.

(Still wondering why Elektron machines do have multi i/o only via overbridge).

If it can handle hot line levels, it would be a keeper (the zoom H2 often needs an attenuator).

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Yeah absolutely. And the recording features seem to be very basic anyway so most would be recording into a Daw or other unit. For me i will be using it mostly as an interface. It would be either this or a focusrite but thats not portable nor as cheap

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Would it actually replace the TX-6 though? They seem worlds apart in theory. May I ask what some of your dislikes of the TX-6 are? Wouldn’t it be something if Zoom gave the TX a run for the money at a thousand bucks cheaper.

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TX-6 is fine. But if this one does what the TX does and multitracks, I don’t mind :slightly_smiling_face:

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Not if TX-6 would run on AAAs :wink::sweat_smile:
TX-6 seems to have a lot of nice extra functions. Don’t know about MIDI clock and punch in/out, overdub or if you’d need TP-7 and OP-1F, too.

However, if multi i/o works class compliant, the L-6 should be ideal companion for my 11” 2013 MacBookAir and Adobe 11. That would be a nice small battery operated combo. :smiley:

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Lack of MIDI sync is what has kept me away from the Zooms for all these years, and still using cheap second-hand Roland VS recorders. The fact they put MIDI ports on this but no sync is :exploding_head:

Agreed that maybe a firmware update will fix, but Zoom has no history of supporting MIDI sync via beat clock, MTC, or any such thing… as far as I know…

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yeah, I mean I got the TP-7 as well, maybe this wouldn’t add anything for me.